Unit 4: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. source
    a document from which information is obtained
  2. bibliography
    a list of writings with time and place of publication
  3. evaluate
    judge; form a critical opinion of
  4. annotate
    add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
  5. rate
    the relative speed of progress or change
  6. inflection
    the modification of pitch, tone, or volume when speaking
  7. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  8. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  9. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  10. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  11. tableau
    a group of people attractively arranged
  12. play
    dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
  13. staging
    the production of a drama on the stage
Created on Tue Nov 09 13:03:13 EST 2021 (updated Thu Nov 18 11:01:15 EST 2021)

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